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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dictionaries Word Count

Posted by Noor Elharty
Noor Elharty
2,630 Points

i solved this challenge with (Counter) class

i googled a way to to count item occurrences in list and i found out that there is a class named (Counter) from (collections) library that takes a list and do exactly as i need and returns a dict exactly as the challenge requested

from collections import Counter
def word_count(argument):
    argument = argument.lower()
    words = argument.split()
    return Counter(words)

my question is , was the challenge meant to be solved with this approach or i just hacked my way through ?